Category: NEWS

The Social media giant Facebook said that it would offer reminders to its users to wear protective masks, responding to the latest surge in US coronavirus cases, which has sparked renewed fears of containing the pandemic. “With the rise in COVID-19 cases in the US,...

Apple is closing dozens of its stores shortly after attempting to re-open them as COVID-19 cases resurface across southern and western US states. According to CNBC, Apple has decided to close 30 stores this week which ups the total closures to 77 out of 271 stores...

The streaming giant Netflix is pledging 2 percent of its cash holdings to provide “economic opportunity for Black communities.” The company plans to initially commit up to $100 million, but the quantity could grow alongside its cash holdings over time. “We believe bringing more capital to these...

Google issued a warning that older G Suite apps will stop working in August as it works to improve performance and security. The issues affect G Suite customers and users of Google’s mobile apps with a personal Google account. Google notes that versions of the apps released...

The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has paid about $1.14 million to recover files locked down by a ransomware infection. The university was struck on June 1, where malware was found in the UCSF School of Medicine’s IT systems. Administrators quickly attempted to isolate...

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has banned TikTok, WeChat, and several dozen other China-based apps it views as “engaged in activities … prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India,” according to a press release. A total of 59 apps are on the banned list....

Apple is tipped to be excluding a power adapter and earbuds in the packaging for the iPhone 12, Apple’s first 5G iPhone.  That’s according to a report from Ming-chi Kuo, a noted analyst who focuses on Apple’s supply chain, as reported by 9to5Mac.  Kuo says that...

Google is previewing a number of upcoming Meet features for education and enterprise customers. This includes blurred and custom backgrounds, hand raising, and new moderation controls, 9to5google reports. Google confirmed to The Verge that in addition to background blur and background replacement images, real-time captioning, low-light mode, hand-raising, and a tile...

Unilever has become the latest company to boycott Facebook advertising. The CPG giant announced on Friday that it’s pausing all ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter throughout “at least” the end of the year. Unilever owns dozens of popular household brands like Hellmann’s mayonnaise and...

The Coca-Cola Company is pausing all digital advertising on social media platforms globally for at least 30 days starting July 1st, the company announced on Friday. The company clarified it was not joining the official boycott, but said “we are pausing” advertising. “There is no...

Microsoft announced that all physical Microsoft Stores will be closed. The change is part of a “strategic change” and will see Microsoft push more effort and money into its digital storefronts. Microsoft announced the change in a new post today. Microsoft will “reimagine” some spaces, repurposing them...

Apple Inc. is closing an additional 14 U.S. retail stores Friday because of recent increases in Covid-19 cases. Of the 18 Apple Store locations in Florida, only two currently remain open, one in Jacksonville and another in Sarasota,  Bloomberg reported. The tally of closed US Apple...

Amazon is reportedly on the verge of announcing a deal to acquire self-driving startup Zoox for over $1 billion, Theinformation Reported The deal would give Amazon control of the nearly 1,000-person startup that has been developing an electric self-driving vehicle. The deal could be announced as...

The tech giant Google is changing the default settings to automatically delete the collected data of its users. Website search, page visited and location data including users’ web and app activity will now be automatically deleted from Google servers after 18 months. Currently this change...

Brazil’s Central Bank has suspended Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, Bloomberg reports. The decision aims to “preserve an adequate competitive environment, that ensures the functioning of a payment system that’s interchangeable, fast, secure, transparent, open and cheap,” the monetary authority said in...

Google has opened its first cloud region in Indonesia, offering three cloud zones and its usual suite of services including Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Google Kubernetes Engine, and BigQuery, the tech giant announced in a blog post. “The launch of our new Jakarta region (asia-southeast2)...

After browsing for a new movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, people may throw something on before deciding 10 minutes in they’re just not that interested. Netflix’s new “remove from row” feature is designed to make it easier for people to remove those...

The micro blogging site Twitter has permanently suspended the @DDoSecrets Twitter account for violating its policy about the distribution of hacked data after the account shared links to hacked data stolen from US law enforcement agencies, ZDNet Reported. Prior to the ban, enforced earlier today,...